A Voice All Alone

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters expect Marissa.

It took Marissa a while to get up in the morning usually, but she was fast to get up this morning. Marissa didn't know why she was, but it was the first day of school though. Marissa was always one to give good first impressions. She put on her pink skirt and white shirt and went down stairs to eat breakfast. She finished her normal routine and got on the bus. She saw an empty seat and sat down. When she sat down she realized that it wasn't empty. There was a boy who was sitting there, he looked asleep. Marissa tapped him to see so.

"What do you want?" Kevin, the sleeping boy, responded.

"Nothing!" Marissa said.

"So you woke me up for nothing?"

"I guess," Marissa looked over to see Kevin's sketchbook. "May I have a look?" she said, pointing to his sketchbook.

"You won't like them; they're not for people like you."

"People like me, what do you mean?"

"The 'Happy People' kind. The ones who always have a smile on their face." Marissa laughed at this. Her life wasn't all too great, with her parents divorce, and not to mention her mother.

"What's so funny?"

"That you would think of me like that," Marissa said. Her friend Jinx got on, Jinx sat behind her. Marissa turned around to talk to her.

"So how was your summer?" Marissa asked Jinx.

"Great, your's?" Jinx said.

"Not so great. My mom made me stay with her in New York for half of the summer. Then finally I got to go to California with my dad. We had a blast. What did you do?"
"After soccer camp I went to France to try and find my parents."

"Did you?"

"No, unfortunately," Jinx said her face fallen. Kevin went back to listening to his old CD player when Marissa asked what he did this past summer.

"Stayed home," Kevin said.

"What did you do at home?" Jinx asked. Jake came on the bus and tapped Marissa on the shoulder.

"I believe you're in my seat," Jake said as the bus driver began to drive to the next stop.

"I'm sorry," Marissa said getting up and sitting by Jinx. "But I don't see your name on it," Marissa whispered to Jinx, they laughed.

On the last stop three more girls came on, their names were Jane, Natalie, and Varjo. They were some what Goth, but not completely, but this was just Marissa view of them. Next came on Lash, and Jinx's heart stopped beating. She thought he was drop dead handsome. Apparently she wasn't the only one, another girl, Lauren, and another guy, Eric, had the same feeling. Marissa could sense it, the way they all gazed at him with such awe.

Sooner than later they all got to school and got off the bus. Marissa and Jinx watched where they were going because last year they both ran into Lash and Speed. This year they didn't run into anyone, and they were both very thankful.

Everyone headed to their first hours expect the new freshman, including Zeke, Rollin and Stefan. All three of them were a little worried on whether they would be heroes or sidekicks. Marissa felt sorry for them; she remembered her first day at Sky High. Her and Jinx got put in hero classes, but they were so nervous at the time of power placement. She heard Coach Boomer yelling and knew it was time to get to class.

As soon as Marissa and Jinx got into the classroom the bell rang, they breathed a sigh of relief. Marissa and Jinx tried to find seats in the middle. If you sat in the middle it showed that you weren't a teacher's pet or a bad student. Marissa was surprised that the only seats open were in the back, so her and Jinx went to the back. Sitting next to them was Jake and Kevin. Kevin was looking over at Layla in awe, but gave Will him a stay away look.

It was then that Marissa realized something. She liked Kevin! Marissa turned to talk to Jinx and saw her staring at some other guy. Marissa turned over to Jake who was talking to Kevin. That's when she had an idea! She just had to get a chance to talk to Jake without Kevin by his side.

"Wolf?" the teacher called.

"Here," a boy answered. Marissa giggled.

"Is there something funny?" the teacher asked Marissa.

"No," Marissa giggled. "Nothing," Marissa said trying to calm herself down. She had no idea why, but a boy named Wolf sounded weird to her.

"Jake?"

"Here," Jake said looking up from talking to Kevin.

"Chia?" the teacher called.

"Here," Chia said looking over to Jinx. Marissa knew there was a connection there, no doubt about it.

"Marissa?"

"Here!"

"Jinx?"

"Here," Jinx said coming to her senses. She turned to Marissa. "I think I'm in love," she said to her.

"I can tell," Marissa said looking over to Chia. He was okay looking, but not her type. Marissa fell for the bad boys, like Kevin.

"Kevin?"

"Here!" Marissa looked over at Kevin and Jake. Kevin looked up and noticed Marissa looking at him. Marissa turned her head quickly. Jake saw this and laughed a little.

After class was over Jinx went to talk to Chia. Marissa rolled her eyes when she saw them walk over to each other. She wished that would happen to her. She felt someone tap on her shoulder and she jumped. The person laughed and Marissa recognized it. She turned around to see Jake. She looked to see if Kevin was around, but he wasn't.

"I have to talk to you," Marissa and Jake said at the same time.

"You first," Marissa said.

"No, ladies first," Jake said.

"I was wondering if you could introduce me to your friend, Kevin."

Jake's heart fell. "Sure not a problem, meet me before lunch?"

"Yeah, where?"

"Where's your locker?"

"By the gym, why?"

"I'll meet you there, with Kevin."

"Okay, its locker 1331."

"All right, see ya then," Jake said leaving the room, Marissa followed.

Meanwhile freshman Rollin and Stefan were hitting it off. Zeke looked up what gay was in his Spanish dictionary.

It was alegre. Zeke looked over to his left in the hallway he saw sophomore Wolf and junior Eric also hitting it off. The four boys went and talked to each other. Zeke rolled his eyes and went into his classroom.

Jane, Natalie, and Varjo walked to their class when Natalie saw Warren Peace. Her heart leaped. She turned to Jane and Varjo.

"I think I'm in love," she said. Lauren, Parker, and Chanzen walked by laughing.

"Good luck!" Lauren said.

"You're gonna need it!" Chanzen said. "I heard that he likes a senior girl. What's her name?"
"Lanta," Parker said dreamingly. Chanzen hit him jokingly and they walked by the girls. Jane smiled at Natalie.

"Just ignore them," Varjo said. "I wouldn't trust them."

"Why?" Jane asked.

"They don't look like the trustworthy type," Varjo said.

"Thanks guys," Natalie said. "That girl, the second one, looked kinda scary."

"She gave me the chills too," Jane said.

Lanta and Vitani walked into their classroom then walked right back out of it. They walked over to the doors leading outside of the school and went onto the football field. Although it was the first day of school it wasn't too early for the girls to ditch. They sat on the bleachers. A couple more people came and sat by them.

"Lanta, we have some bad news," Parker said sitting down.

"What is it?"
"Some other girl likes Warren too," Lauren said.

"Do you know who it is?" Lanta asked.

"Some junior," Chanzen said.

"Well, find out a soon as you can," Lanta said. "No one takes my man."

Rollin and Stefan came over to the group.

"So what's going on?" Stefan asked.

"Nothing, yet," Lanta said with an edge to her voice. "But there will soon be a plan."

"What plan?" Rollin asked.

"A plan to bring down those good for nothing goodie goodies," Vitani said.